REPUBLIC OF GHANA NARRATIVE STATEMENT FOR THE DISTRICT COMPOSITE BUDGET OF THE AHANTA WEST DISTRICT ASSEMBLY FOR THE 2015 FISCAL YEAR For Copies of this MMDA’s Composite Budget, please contact the address below: The Coordinating Director, Ahanta West District Assembly P. O. Box 22 Agona Nkwanta Tel/Fax: 03120-93191 This 2015 Composite Budget is also available on the internet at: www.mofep.gov.gh or www.ghanadistricts.com Page 1 of 35 Table of Contents Page # Introduction, Brief Profile and Broad objectives----------------------------------------------------4 Introduction-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------4 District Profile--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------5 District Economy----------------------------------------------------------------------------------6 Vision and Mission--------------------------------------------------------------------------------7 Key Issues------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------8 Broad Goal and Objectives in line with the GSGDA II--------------------------------------9 Outturn of the 2014 Composite Budget Implementation---------------------------------------10 Revenue and Expenditure Performance (2012 to June, 2014) ----------------------------10 Detail of Expenditure by Departments--------------------------------------------------------14 Services and Non-Financial Assets Performance------------------------------------------- 15 Summary of Projects Commitments---------------------------------------------------------- 18 Challenges and Constraints---------------------------------------------------------------------20 Outlook for 2015-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------21 2015 Revenue Projections----------------------------------------------------------------------21 Revenue Mobilisation strategies for key revenue sources--------------------------------- 23 2015 Expenditure Projections------------------------------------------------------------------24 Summary of 2015 Budget and Fund sources------------------------------------------------ 25 Justification for projects and programmes for 2015 with cost-----------------------------27 Page 2 of 35 LIST OF TABLES PAGE # Table 1: Key Issues 8 Table 2: Adopted broad objectives in line with GSGDA II 9 Table 3: Internally Generated Fund performance (2012 to June 30, 2014) 10 Table 4: Overall Revenue Performance (2012 to June 30, 2014) 11 Table 5: Overall Expenditure Performance (2012 to June 30, 2014) 11 Table 6: Expenditure details by departments 14 Table 7: Non-Financial and Services Performance by Department and by Sector 15 Table 8: Summary of commitments on outstanding/ completed 18 Table 9: Revenue Projection-Internally Generated Fund (IGF) 21 Table 10: Revenue Projection-All sources 22 Table 11: Strategies for IGF Collection 23 Table 12: Expenditure projections (2015-2017) 24 Table 13: Summary of 2015 Budget and Funding Sources 25 Table 14: 2015 Projects and Programmes justification with corresponding cost 27 LIST OF FIGURES PAGE # Figure1: Political Map of Ahanta West District 5 Fig 2: Proportion to total expenditure by economic classification (in % ages) 13 Fig 3: Projects status as at September, 2014 20 Fig 4: Contribution of the various funds to financing the 2015 budget 26 Page 3 of 35 INTRODUCTION 1. Section 92 (3) of the Local Government Act 1993, Act 462 envisages the implementation of the composite budget system under which the budget of the department of the District Assembly would be integrated into the budget of the District Assembly. The District Composite Budgeting System would achieve the following amongst others: a. Ensure that public funds follow functions to give meaning to the transfer of staff transferred from the Civil Service to the Local Government Service. b. Establish an effective integrated budgeting system which supports intended goals, expectation and performance of government at the local level; c. Deepen the uniform approach to planning, budgeting, financial reporting and auditing. d. Facilitate harmonized development and introduce fiscal prudence in the management of public funds at the MMDA level. 2. In 2011, Government directed all Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) to prepare for the fiscal year 2012, Composite budgets which integrated budgets of departments under Schedule I of the local Government (Departments of District Assemblies) (Commencement) Instrument, 2009, (L.I.1961). This policy initiative would upscale full implementation of fiscal decentralization and ensure that the utilization of all public resources at the local level takes place in an efficient, effective, transparent and accountable manner for improved service delivery. 3. The composite Budget of the Ahanta West District Assembly for the 2015 fiscal year has been prepared from the 2015 Annual Action Plan lifted from the 2014-2017 DMTDP which is aligned to the Ghana Shared Growth and Development Agenda II (GSGDA II, 2014-2017). Page 4 of 35 PROFILE OF THE DISTRICT 1. The Ahanta West District is located along the southern coast of Figure1: Political Map of Ahanta West District Ghana. Formerly under the jurisdiction of the Sekondi- Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly, the Ahanta West District formed its own autonomous district and government in 1988 as per L.I 1395. The District capital is Agona Nkwanta, a town centrally located within the District. The district has 123 settlements. Ethnic composition in the District is quite homogeneous with Ahanta as the dominant group. Other major ethnic groupings are Fanti, Nzema, Wassa and Ewe. The Ahanta West District has three Traditional Councils namely: Busua, Lower Dixcove and Upper Dixcove Traditional Council. Administratively, the District has six (6) Area Councils namely; Agona, Apowa, Abura, Busua, Area council’s capital towns Dixcove and Ewusiejoe. The District has 36 elected Assembly members and 16 Appointees, made up of 47 males and 5 females. 2. The District covers a land area of 591km2, which is approximately 2.47% of the total land area of Western Region. It shares boundaries with Nzema East Municipal to the west, Tarkwa-Nsuaem Municipal & Mpohor District on the north, Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly to the east and the Gulf of Guinea to the south. DEMOGRAPHY 3. The population of the district is 106,215 according to the 2010 Population and Housing Census. This is made up of 50,999 males representing 48.01% and 55,216 females representing 51.99%, translating into a sex ratio of 92.4. The District has a population density of 180.0 persons per square kilometer. This makes the district population relatively dense. The population of the district constitutes about 4.5 per cent and 0.43 per cent of the total population of the Western Region and Ghana respectively. The population of the district is relatively young, with over 47 per cent within the age group, 0-17. The proportion of urban to total population is 29.5 per cent, with the remaining 70.5 per cent rural. The urban population covers peri-urban areas of Agona Ahanta, Apowa, Dixcove, and Abura. There are 26,095 households in the district, with the Page 5 of 35 number of persons per household being approximately 4.0 as compared to both the regional and national average of 4.2 and 4.4 respectively. SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS 4. The district is endowed with considerable natural resources, which gives it a significant economic importance within the context of national development. It is one of the largest producers of rubber and oil palm in the region. A wide variety of minerals, including oil, gold and quarry stones are either being exploited or are potentially exploitable. The district’s total mineral potentials are yet to be fully exploited. AGRICULTURE 5. Agriculture is the major economic activity undertaken in the district. According to the 2010 Population and Housing Census, 12,325 households representing 47.2% of the total household are into agriculture. It also employs 38.1% of the labour force. This means that more than half of the active population is into non-agrarian activities. Major food crops produce include cassava, plantain, maize, yam, rice and vegetables. Prominent cash crops are oil palm and rubber. For livestock rearing, chicken and duck constitute 63.1% and 2.9% of the birds’ category respectively. Most ruminants reared are goats and sheep constituting 20.8% and 5.9% respectively. ROADS 6. The total length of roads in the district is about 200 kilometers, comprising of 80-kilometre stretch of trunk roads and 120 kilometers of feeder roads. The trunk road traverses the district in an East-West direction and forms part of the Trans-African Highway. The trunk road which stretches from Apowa to Anyaano is under construction. The condition of feeder roads in the district is mixed with 70 per cent as good, 20 per cent as fair and 10 per cent as poor. TOURISM 7. The District has attractive seashores, historical monuments, fishing villages, primeval forests giving it the potential for tourism. Notable among these are: Busua Beach Resort, River delta at Seacoast village of Pumponie, Wooded beach near Dixcove, “icon” lighthouse at the farthest point in Ghana, Cape Three Points. Out of the eight forts and fotress in the region, four of them are situated in the district. EDUCATION 8. Currently, there are 45 pre-schools, 101 Kindergartens, 94 primary schools, 66 junior high schools, 2 senior high schools and